this looks neat – Kimchi and Justice

sussexbound:

ecologistsarealwaysfine:

kate2kat:

earlgreytea68:

sonickitty:

In addition to the Archive of our Own, I wish we had a blogging platform of our own. A fandom social media site with the best of tumblr and livejournal and everything else that’s helped fandom thrive – only better. And user-focused. And with a sense of permanence so you wouldn’t have to worry about your fandom friends jumping ship to another platform.

Aren’t there any fans out there in Silicon Valley???

Because a social media/ networking site that does what it says and serves the needs of its users is possible. Ravelry, the site for knitters and crocheters, was coded by one person. It currently has a staff of, I think, four, serving more than 4million users.
It includes databases of patterns, multiple spaces for users to keep their own records which are fully searchable, forums for discussion and friendship, groups of mutual interests, the ability to post pictures (they charge $5 a year if you want to post pictures directly to forums, it’s free to post pictures in your own project pages). They never seem to make changes that make things worse, but are constantly innovating. They maintain a user wish list that they actively try to fulfill. They post tutorials to help new users get the most out of the site. They have only ever gone down for a handful of hours that I’m aware of (the head coder has a server alarm by his bed, if anything goes wrong, he gets up, drives to the server and fixes it. While tweeting his progress).
It is free, supported by ads you actually want to see.

Granted, it’s a smaller network for a niche interest group, but it proves what is possible if a developer is actually interested in the users’ interests and needs.

Again, ya’ll, NerdNest.

For reference, an article about it in Westword, a local magazine.

An overview of the web app.

seriously i’m not showing you this because she’s my friend, i think this has a ton of potential. it’s created for fangirls by a fangirl.

^^Ya’ll, I just checked out that NerdNest site/app, and it looks REALLY cool. It would take a little getting used to, but imagine sort of Pinterest crossed with Tumblr. I signed up, because I could see it becoming a nice alternative to Tumblr at some point, if that because necessary. I like the look of it WAY more than soup.io.